Love you more than Coffee Flamingo card

Love having coffee even more in a tropical setting like this!! Yes, I drink way more in the Florida Keys than anywhere else! Here I am having my second come this morning and getting to share my latest card for the #springsummer2018clh! 

Here are the details: Using a precut card base, I added this fabulous scallop coaster I found at a local coffee shop, and this after die cutting the sentiment stamped from Gloria Stengel's fabulous "Love you more than Coffee" Hampton Art wood mount stamp. Stamps crisp every time! 

For the more Tropical feel I use Little B's Tropical die to cut out all the die cuts and had a great time doing it! I actually die these when we had Hurricane Irma in 2017 and had lost electricity. I used my Spellbinders Platinum 6. This kept me happy and thinking "happy thoughts" during the high winds!!! ;) 

Challenges: 

Spring Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop #943

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

Stamplorations Stacked Tea Cups

Well, here I am again, with Stamplorations Framed Tea Cups because I ljust love it!!! I also love to paper piece if I have time to play with different patterns. So I wanted to use these beautiful patterns from Graphic 45 Artisan Style collection. You know I couldn't have done this without my trustie MISTI to stamp and restamp and restamp the same images over and over. Used Memento Tuxedo Black ink by the way.

To fully give this card the perfect sentiment, I chose Gloria Stengel's More Than Coffee Stamp.

Spring-Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop#574

Challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Use more than one stamp

Newton's Nook Cuppa Cactus Card

I just love the perfect cup of coffee from the adorable Newton's Cuppa Cactus which I stamped with Memento Tuxedo black using my MISTI tool. I wanted this to have more dimension so I used Strathmore Artist Papers in their Illustration Board to do just that. It has a thick base but you must be careful coloring with Copic Markers which can be absorbed and colors run more easily. May Arts twine in natural color was then wrapped three times around the navy cardstock base, and tied with a double bow and then Nuvo Crystal Drops in English Mustard added for that extra texture as well.
Copic  .Markers included: YG63, YG67, YG21, R39, R29, Y13, Y17, B21, B28, B18.

Hope you are enjoying the Spring + Summer Coffee Loving Papercraft Blog Hop!#539

Other challenges include:
 Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: use more tn one stamp: image and sentiment

Paper Smooches Cup Card

Using the Kaisercraft Pineapple die and the Paper Smooches coffee cup (& tea) die and another die for the spoon, I paper pieced this card to make it feel like the balmy summer nights ahead. All papers are from my stash but most are the Basic Grey South Pacific collection. Hope you are enjoying the Bloghop! 

Challenges:
Paper Smooches "Fun" challenge for May 2018

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday: Use More Than One Stamp
Spring-Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop #414

Stamplorations Framed Tea Cups Card

                                     

Good morning and this is Day 2 of the Coffee Lovers Bloghop and am using Super Sponsor, Stamplorations image. This is Stamplorations Framed Tea Cups stamp which I had a blast coloring!!! The Copic Markers are : Y11, Y13, Y32, Y35, Y38, BG10, BG11, BG13, RV25, RV29, E50. E53. The image is just so fun and a joy to play with!!
The pre-made card has a flap so I adhered the image to that flap and put a cream colored piece behind it to write a note on. I added The Cat's Pajamas sentiment and made a flap which holds the image in place and sealed the edge of the flap with the pearl. Nuvo Crystal Drops in two colors and Ranger glossy accents were added as well to add some dimension. I added matching pattern paper from my stash to finish it. Simple and so colorful!! Enjoy the hop!!
Challenges:
Word Art Wednesday Challenge Week #336-337
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: Use more than one stamp
Spring-Summer Coffee Lovers Bloghop I'm #264

Coffee Lover's Bloghop

To start off with my first for this Spring + Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop, I chose Newton's Cuppa Cactus which I stamped with Memento Tuxedo black using my MISTI tool. I used Strathmore plain cardstock ATC paper. I then colored using my Copic Markers: YG63, YG67, YG21, RV29, RV14, RV13, E50, E53, W1, W3 which all matched the Basic Grey pattern papers I had chosen. This collection is called South Pacific and the flower paper is Tahiti. Then Nuvo Crystal Drops in black were added to have a finished look.

The front panel was then glued down using the BG papers onto a folded 4.5" x 5.25" card made of a bright green cardstock.

I fussy cut the flower and leaf and added them under my ATC piece for some interest.

                  Don't forget that today the Spring + Summer Coffee Lover's Bloghop starts! My card is #86 if you are looking for it!

Also, entering this in 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge: use more than one stamp/

Word Art Wednesday Anything Goes - Weeks #336-#337

Craft Fantastic Jewelry from Scrapbook Expo Orlando

Hey ladies, I had the awesome opportunity to go to the local Scrapbook Expo Orlando here in town a few weeks ago.  I had attended both days and on going the second day, arrived at the Craft Fantastic booth to do their Make & Take and found that they are selling, ONLY ON Saturday for ours, this fantastic collection of pieces worth $30 for only $15!! I had purchased the day before and was so amazed at the value of this that I bought it! These are just some of the pieces I made. The Rose images were taken from their Mexican Roses images which the nice lady let me take from the M&T images since she was out of the sheet of images at her booth. The second image is from a sheet also given to me and was used on their double sided butterfly necklace that was not apart of the value bag. Here are more pictures of the bag's contents:

Look at that owl alone!!! I made the earrings immediately and used the images there since I couldn't find the sheet to buy. Here are the jewelry pieces in various colors, but the key ring pieces I did get separately and they were not apart of the bag. This also came with the glass domes for each.

I learned that if you want to remove a piece of paper you have just glued down, to put it under running water and wash with dawn if needed, to remove the paper completely. Then dry it and begin again. Amazing how much we learn when we make mistakes!!! Loads of fun to play with these fun pieces!

You can find shopping pieces online here at Craft Fantastic Kit of the month or Craft Fantastic

I am not paid for this article but thought you would like to know this fun company.

Challenges: 

Simon Says Stamp Monday: Title of Song